New Year, new challenges

I've not been very active on here lately. In the last months of 2008, I've moved back to the People's Republic of Minnesota, (aka Frankinland) switched jobs, and found out I'm going to be a daddy for the first time. What a ride. Now I have to worry about what kind of country my child will grow up in. Will it be a country that allows and encourages hard work and innovation, or one that makes the people subservient waifs?

To quote Samuel Adams " If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."

We have now gotten to the place where the sole purpose of those we elect is what they can give to us.

“If you have been voting for politicians who promise to give you goodies at someone else's expense, then you have no right to complain when they take your money and give it to someone else, including themselves” Thomas Sowell

So, in conclusion, stock up, be ready, put your faith in God and we will make it for years to come.